{"id":131926,"date":"2024-06-26T09:10:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T06:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/kaja-kallas-the-russia-hawk-poised-to-become-the-eus-top-diplomat\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T09:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T06:10:17","slug":"kaja-kallas-the-russia-hawk-poised-to-become-the-eus-top-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/kaja-kallas-the-russia-hawk-poised-to-become-the-eus-top-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaja Kallas: The Russia hawk poised to become the EU\u2019s top diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131926\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Moscow has put a prize on her head. Kaja Kallas is now wanted in Brussels. Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, one of the EU\u2019s most outspoken Russia critics, is tipped to step into the most powerful foreign policy role in Brussels in a move that could send a strong signal to Moscow. The bloc\u2019s 27 leaders have pencilled in Kallas\u2019 name for the EU\u2019s top diplomatic job, currently held by Spain\u2019s Josep Borrell, with a final decision expected this week.<\/p>\n<p>If her nomination is formalised by EU leaders on Thursday and then approved by the European Parliament\u2019s foreign affairs committee, she will become the first eastern European in the role and the first Estonian to ever clinch one of the EU\u2019s top jobs. Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Kallas has been a driving force in EU efforts to punish Russia with sanctions, send military support to Ukraine, and bolster the bloc\u2019s own defence capacities.<\/p>\n<p>The sheer vigour of her anti-Russia stance, which predates the war, had sparked speculation her candidacy for the top diplomat role could be blocked for fear of provoking Moscow. Her unsparing response to Russia\u2019s aggression has even earned Kallas the status of a wanted person in Russia, a response to her efforts to remove Soviet-era World War II monuments in her Baltic nation, which the Kremlin described as \u201chostile action toward historic memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But diplomats told Euronews that her ruthless stance on Moscow was not a major stumbling block in her nomination. Eastern European diplomats are particularly supportive of bringing their own perspective to an EU diplomacy which has been for years dominated by western Europeans. Her imminent nomination also comes despite the European liberal group she belongs to slipping to become the fourth biggest political force in the European Parliament following disappointing results in June&#8217;s European elections.<\/p>\n<p>The prospective move to Brussels comes as Kallas struggles with dipping approval rates domestically, despite maintaining a strong international profile. Her approval rating slumped to just 16% in January, following months of decline since last summer, when reports of her husband&#8217;s business ties to Russia first broke.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2023, it emerged that Kallas\u2019 husband Arvo Hallik held a stake in a logistics company that had continued operating in Russia since the war in Ukraine broke out more than a year and a half earlier. Kallas has since denied any prior knowledge of the company\u2019s Russia ties and described the domestic backlash as a political witch hunt.<\/p>\n<p>But the scandal incited minimal international response, with the exception of a jab by Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto, who accused Kallas of \u201chypocrisy\u201d when she censured Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s handshake with Vladimir Putin during an encounter in China. Kallas also came under scrutiny in March when EU diplomats accused her government of artificially inflating reimbursements for arms sent to Ukraine under the so-called European Peace Facility (EPF), which allows member states to get partially reimbursed for arms donations.<\/p>\n<p>The amounts requested by Estonia outstripped other member states that had made similar donations, suggesting Tallinn had been calculating its pay-backs based on the price of new military kits while sending older equipment to Kyiv. The Estonian foreign ministry hit back at the reports, claiming it had acted in accordance with the rules and that Ukraine had \u201cnever complained\u201d about the quality of the equipment it was receiving from Estonia.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/06\/26\/kaja-kallas-the-russia-hawk-poised-to-become-the-eus-top-diplomat\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/06\/26\/kaja-kallas-the-russia-hawk-poised-to-become-the-eus-top-diplomat\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/kaja-kallas-the-russia-hawk-poised-to-become-the-eus-top-diplomat\/\">Kaja Kallas: The Russia hawk poised to become the EU\u2019s top diplomat<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[274,15070,588,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-131926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-eu","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-russia","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}